ABSTRACT

Posterior instrumentation techniques have been using very common in the surgical treatment of the scoliosis. Of these, all pedicle screw technique and hybrid technique which contains pedicle screws and hooks together are very well known. Aim of the current study is to compare the results in terms of health realted quality of life of these to techniques by Scoliosis Resarch Society-22 questionnarie retrospectively. Total 31 adolescent idiopathic scoliosis patients with minimum 1 year follow-up included to the study. Of these 16 patients were operated with hybrid technique, 15 pateints were operated with all pedicle screw technique. 26 patients were female, 5 patients were male. Average age was 19.4 ± 5.25 and average follow-up was 5.5 (1-10) years. SRS-22 questionnaire was applied to all patients and scores of related domains were calculated. Results were evaluated with Mann-Whitney U test statistically. Statistically there was no difference between all domains including pain, self image, activity/function, mental health and satisfaction with management (p>0.05). In conclusion, since the SRS-22 scores did not demonstrate any difference between the hybrid group and all pedicle screw group, clinical outcome are the same in these two cohort.